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​Wouldn't it have taken something out of the ordinary to turn us around, from the day we first met the Lord, when we did believe, that we had been saved and....

raised up together, and made us sit together​in the heavenly placesin Christ Jesus,Ephesians 2:6

​​when we knew in our spirit that we had been reborn into the Name above all names, JESUS

and there was no division​

I believed it at the time, and I'm sure you did to.

But this was before we were 'fed' ​by our earliest shepherds.​

"As long as a believer has an enemy stronghold in their lives,they can be used by the enemy unknowinglyagainst themselves or others".

​Clearly, something must have come against and influenced our first belief, and we know this is Satan's expertise.(Influencing our belief)

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We've known from the beginning that we.....​​do not wrestle against fleshandblood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Eph 6:12​We also know that if we don't fight in the spiritual realm,​The thief comes tosteal, and to kill, and to destroy John 10:10

given half a chance he will rob us of our faith. ​Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8

With our eyes on his stronghold, not fighting in the spiritual realm for our oneness, resulting in us thinking thoughts that our salvation and our oneness, are separate entities, and that while we are in Christ we can 'achieve' our unity and oneness.​A damaging deception disguised as a Godly aspiration,​as crippling as trying to become more 'saved'.

​Galatians 3:3Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

Is the enemy reminding you now of his 'impossible mountain', with it's endless difficulties and problems,regarding the practicalities of unity​within the global church?

However, we know he's doing his best to hide the factthat all of these problems are of this world, Satan's world.But with our eyes off of his Goliath sized mountain, and back on our Father, we see clearly the mountain is fake and is nothing compared to....​​

​Our enemy is the prince of the air, he rules this roost, could he have deceived us with a fine mist of subtle lies, so extraordinary that we end up asking the wrong question first.

"what can I do about unity",​rather than​"what am I believing about unity".

​​Our belief in our oneness may appear ​as less ​important or personal than our faith in Christ, yet it is impossible to have one without the other.​

​Satan also knows this, and he looks at our oneness very differently to the way he wants us to, because ​we are far more than just individuals, ​​that collectively we are ​the Body of Christ,​the one and only real giant in this land,​the only threat to his darkness in this world,​and the only hope for the lost in it.​

xxxxxxx​​ ​Since we were born again, our individual belief or unbeliefin our oneness, ​has been crucial to our spiritual power for reaching ​the lost in this world, and we have to assume​​that our enemy knows this.

I believe our enemy has attacked the army of God here in stealth, hiding his demons and lies behind his stronghold, 'back-drop' or 'mountain' of our division.

​That he has been drip feeding us with​ since the first hour we were born again​Achieving his foothold​ and stronghold in our thoughts,​ with particular focus on our leaderships.​

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​Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV) But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.​​

We know that it required our faith to be 'born again'​into His Holy Nation, so would it be at all surprising,​ if it requires our faith again, to receive this Holy Spirit revelationof our oneness?

​Would it be such a giant leap of faith for us,​when we concider and compare it to our first?

If we are born again, then we've been here before, we know faith always comes before the proof.

​Rom 1:17​For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written:​“The righteous will live by faith.”

​​Can you see our land?​

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​"The righteous will live by faith".​This truth is comprehensive, it applies to every aspect of our lives,and does include our lives within the body of Christ.We can be confident in this because, ​​when Jesus prayed this prayer...​

​"That they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me". Jn17:21

​Jesus is praying to his Father,He is not asking us to make ourselves one.So unless we believe that God refused His Son's prayer request,​we must believe that in the spiritual realm, we are one in Christ.

Many of us did not have an instant dramatic conversion,we walked by faith and the Lord revealed Himself over time, ​and so it may be with our spiritual oneness.

​I met Jesus in 1975, and from the very beginning the Holy Spirit has been affirming to my spirit, that the power in our oneness,is the very same power that we have been​praying and crying out for.​xxxxxxxxxx

​What if we have been smothered with lies since the daywe were born again, like a mist of tiny lying droplets, outside our comprehension, but their sole purpose ​wasto saturate us with reasons for, and the rationalising ofour disunity, to steal our best weapon for reaching the lost,​ by simply tampering with our belief in who we are as one,so we ended up here...​without our most effective weapon.

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We know that our enemy always shows us a need in our own lives that isn't there, and then he offers us what appears like the 'perfect solution'.He does it every time to steal what God has already given us,surely we can assume he stole our best weapon​in the same way, by showing us a need that is not real,​a carnal mountain of our division.

(43,000 denominations in 2012 according to Wikipedia,​and all the other endless difficulties, even within the same denominations)

and then offers us his perfect solution,​"Unity, that's what you need"

However because we are now saturated with his unbelief,and with our eyes on the mountain, we, the Bride of God, entertain his counterfeit solution.

Which proves we no longer believe that we are one in Christ.

​The mountain convinces us that we have a job to do, a need to work for unity, but isn't this the exact oppositeto receiving our oneness in faith?(The exact same deception he uses regarding our unrighteousness before God).

Again it comes back to 'law and grace',​

In spirit and truth,this mountain of division does not exist,no more than our unrighteousness before God​now that we are in Christ and covered by His blood.(contrary to what religion tells us)He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His Name:​ John 1:12-13

Believe and receive, that's what we did, and when Satan came with his lies, we cast them out in the Name of Jesus,and we walked on in faith.​So something has obviously obstructed us from doing this,​regarding our oneness.​We don't have a need, we are already one,we are as one as we are loved, as one as it is possible to be,​there is no such thing as division in the Body of Christ.​

​I pray the Holy Spirit will speak to your heart,​remembering why we sing and preach that the Name of Jesus is above ALL names, which does include every name that Satan uses to try to convince us of division in Jesus' body,​which obviously there is not. ​​

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​We remember that Canaan was not the land of the midgets,​but it was the land that God had already given His people,and all they had to do, was to put one foot of faith in front​ of the other, to possess what was already theirs.​Do you see our land?

But look what the father of unoriginalitysays to us once we're seeing things ​​from his achieving perspective, ​he can now say...​

​"Don't worry about all that unity stuff out there, it's too problematic, ​the mountain is far too big, besides Jesus will sort it all out on His return, instead we should focus on reaching the harvest, with those all important ministries and missions, ​at least we can see our achievements" ​he says.​​​-.-.-.-​

43,000 denominations and all the other difficulties ​does look like a giant.

1 Samuel 17:4-20 (NKJV)4 And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height wassix cubits and a span. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat wasfive thousand shekels of bronze. 6 And he hadbronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. 7 Now the staff of his spear waslike a weaver’s beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him.​​It's not the mountain of reasons for division in the'visible worldly church' we should examine,rather it's Satan's purpose for that mountain.

​Which I believe is to discourage us from believingand walking in faith,​in what God has already spiritually done for the 'invisible Body of Christ'.

​It won't be hard to tell the two apart, ​because the Body of Christ will love the message​'walking in faith as one'​and the worldly churches will not!​

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.Zechariah 4:6-7